Amuse Bouches

I have had a very fussy days the past few weeks but gratefully things are starting to subside again. Just enough time for me to gasp (& to visit your blogs, apoligies for my abscense) before the shaking and rock & rolling schedule start again.

December is finally here :-) my favorite month for a lot of reasons: my birthday, gifts, Christmas, snow, partying, celebrations and a plenty of pigging out here and there. And speaking of festivity here's the latest menu of the cocktail party I prepared for hubby's "farewell party" in the office. Here's some figures: It took me 4 hours to prepare them,there were about 80 people in their branch who feasted on this and it only took them 30 minutes to gobble them all up.

*Amuse Bouche

Also called an amuse-gueule, is a single, bite-sized hors d'ouvre. The term in French literally means "mouth amuser", for bouche means mouth and amuser is "to amuse" or "to please"

Start by cooking your fava beans until they are tender. Set them aside. In a casserole put some olive oil and grill your chorizo until they are brown, set them aside. On the same oil sauté your onions until they are wilted. In a bowl toss your onion, fava beans and chorizo together. Mix the vinegar, salt, paprika and olive oil together. Pour them on your salad.

I love the concept of an amuse bouche. I really like having little bites of everything because I love tasting things and having it in little portions like this makes it so much easier. This seems like a really delicious combination of flavors, between the salty/savory of the chorizo and the earthiness of the favas. Yum!

wow, such beautiful pictures and great recipes too! I stumbled across your blog today and I am sure glad I did! This is a great space with wonderful recipes.. I'll be sure to come back often. Thanks for sharing.